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Hello, All. Long time lurker but new member as of today.

Can anyone confirm the correct setlist from last night? As far as I can remember it was:

 

Show time: 21:15

 

Art of Almost

Poor Places

IATTBYH

One Wing

Black Bull Nova

You Are My Face

One Sunday Morning

Rising Red Lung

Impossible Germany

Standing O

I Might

Sunloathe (? not sure about this)

Hummingbird

Box Full of Letters

Born Alone

Handshake Drugs

Dawned On Me

Shot In The Arm

 

Encore:

Whole Love

Via Chicago

I'm The Man Who Loves You

 

Curfew 11:00

 

Pretty sure about the songs (except for Sunloathe) but a bit sketchy about the order. Don't think I've missed anything, but stand to be corrected. What a show. What a band.

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Hello, All. Long time lurker but new member as of today.

Can anyone confirm the correct setlist from last night? As far as I can remember it was:

 

Show time: 21:15

 

Art of Almost

Poor Places

IATTBYH

One Wing

Black Bull Nova

You Are My Face

One Sunday Morning

Rising Red Lung

Impossible Germany

Standing O

I Might

Sunloathe (? not sure about this)

Hummingbird

Box Full of Letters

Born Alone

Handshake Drugs

Dawned On Me

Shot In The Arm

 

Encore:

Whole Love

Via Chicago

I'm The Man Who Loves You

 

Curfew 11:00

 

Pretty sure about the songs (except for Sunloathe) but a bit sketchy about the order. Don't think I've missed anything, but stand to be corrected. What a show. What a band.

 

By recollection you should drop Sunloathe, Poor Places and You Are My Face and add At Least That's What You Said.

The order isn't there either by my memory isn't up to that! Great show mind you!

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Know there wasn't You Are My Face or Sunloathe or Poor Places.... def played ALTWYS.... wracking my brains. My bro took a picture of the set list. I'll report back!

 

They also had War on the set list, but didn't have time to play it. I blame Jonathan Wilson, but I'm not bitter.... transcendent gig.

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According to a post on Wilco's Facebook page:

 

Art of Almost

I Might

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

One Wing

Bull Black Nova

At Least that's What You Said

One Sunday Morning

Born Alone

Box Full of Letter

Handshake Drugs

Standing O

Rising Red Lung

Impossible Germany

Hummingbird

Dawned on Me

Shot in the Arm

..

Via Chicago

Whole Love

I'm The Man That Loves You

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http://mancunianmatters.co.uk/content/review-wilco-manchester-academy-–-25102011

 

Review: Wilco @ Manchester Academy – 25/10/2011

 

BANTER: Wilco's Jeff Tweedy

Posted Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 16:42

By Mary Maguire

 

Wilco’s UK tour might have started off in Glasgow but it only came to life in Manchester as front man Jeff Tweedy sent fans wild at the Academy last night.

 

Tweedy proclaimed: “You are a whole lot better than last night’s audience,” referring to the fight which had broken out during what he bemusedly described as one of the band’s gentler songs. 

 

He said of the punter whose nose was allegedly broken: “The sound was gross, but it was the liveliest thing about the whole night!”

 

Wilco’s set did not disappoint their Mancunian fans, as they opened with extended rock introduction Art of Almost from their Whole Love album released in September.

 

The incongruity of the stage design which featured home-store lampshades alongside standard spot and strobe lighting befitting of rock bands added a fluency to a set which ranged from extended ear-splitting guitar solos to familiar sounding country songs. 

 

Diehard fans were not disappointed as the set moved seamlessly from newer work to old favourites, such as A Shot in the Arm from their 1999 album Summerteeth and I am Trying to Break Your Heart from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

 

Fans were rewarded and probably conceived at last night’s gig where good humoured banter was interspersed with classic guitar duets between Tweedy and the multi-talented instrumentalist and producer Pat Sansone. 

 

The banter was good-natured throughout.  Even when one audience member complained about the high pitched whine of the smoke machine, describing it as ‘analogue’ Tweedy replied: “Of course it’s analogue motherf***er. This is the real world! It’s not perfect!

 

But for Wilco fans, it wasn’t far off.

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Fans were rewarded and probably conceived at last night’s gig where good humoured banter was interspersed with classic guitar duets between Tweedy and the multi-talented instrumentalist and producer Pat Sansone.

 

I'd noticed that Pat Sansone was a bit more to the fore than was previously the case, but no mention of Nels? And I must admit that I was too busy watching the stage to see if any couples were busy trying to conceive. It may be worth checking the birth announcements in the local papers in 9 months time, if there are lots of baby Jeffs, Glenns, Glendas (?), then we'll know that Ms Maguires journalistic skills are not to be doubted.

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The gig was OK. The band were great, but the venue is dreadful and I think the setlist could've been in a better order. Even though I live in Manchester, I rarely enjoy the gigs here because the venues are bad and the crowds are even worse. Fair play the crowd wasn't so bad last night. They soundchecked a cover of "you really got me" yesterday.

 

Looking forward to Bristol tomorrow, that is a real great venue!

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The comments on the fight are at the start of this

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa68lrqwjmY

 

There's a One Sunday Morning video loaded by the same person there too.

 

Jeff needs a better hat...but at least it's better than that too small straw cowboy hat he wore back in the day.

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The gig was OK. The band were great, but the venue is dreadful and I think the setlist could've been in a better order. Even though I live in Manchester, I rarely enjoy the gigs here because the venues are bad and the crowds are even worse. Fair play the crowd wasn't so bad last night. They soundchecked a cover of "you really got me" yesterday.

 

 

Well said mate, The Academy is a hideous venue. I can't believe they redeveloped the entrance/bar area and did nothing to the actual hall! It has all the charm and the acoustics of a nuclear bunker. I wish they had played the Lowry even though it's all seater at least you'd have been able to hear what was being played. The gig was a real disappointment due to the awfulness of the Academy. I hope they come back to the UK again on this tour since I was unable to make any of the other shows and I'd really like to "hear" the songs from the new album live.

 

Manchester really sucks when it comes to venues although I've heard that the Academy is the only one that doesn't take a cut from merch sales which may be why everyone plays there.

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The smaller academys take a cut of merch, so I'd imagine the main hall does too. I think the problem is that the academy is the only venue in the centre which can accommodate a band of this size (like mogwai and sonic youth too). Bridgewater Hall could work but it's pretty big and risks being half empty. Lowry is brilliant, saw Sigur Ros there back in 2005 (I think) and it as great. Thing is; people in Manchester, students and the like, don't want to travel out on the metro to Salford. It's only 15 minutes but it puts them off, especially if you need to get the last train back to places like Rochdale and Bolton etc...

 

I heard they were turning the old Odeon on Oxford Rd into a venue, but surely it would just be like the Apollo? Nightmare.

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